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The Many Faces Of Iqbal, Rosalie Berger Levinson
The Many Faces Of Iqbal, Rosalie Berger Levinson
Law Faculty Publications
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Congress Needs To Repair The Court's Damage To § 1983, Ivan E. Bodensteiner
Congress Needs To Repair The Court's Damage To § 1983, Ivan E. Bodensteiner
Law Faculty Publications
Today it is not unusual for a § 1983 plaintiff to establish a violation of the U.S. Constitution and resulting injuries, yet be denied damages because of the Supreme Court's misinterpretation of the 1871 statute. This anomaly is the result of several defenses created by the Court, including absolute and qualified immunity, the rejection of respondeat superior liability for municipalities, and the expansion of sovereign immunity, based, in part, on a misinterpretation of the Eleventh Amendment. Several other rulings of the Court narrow the circumstances under which private parties are subject to § 1983 liability, refuse to exempt § 1983 …
Time To Bury The Shocks The Conscience Test, Rosalie Berger Levinson
Time To Bury The Shocks The Conscience Test, Rosalie Berger Levinson
Law Faculty Publications
The Supreme Court has acknowledged that "the Due Process Clause, like its forebear in the Magna Carta, was 'intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government'...to prevent governmental power from being 'used for purposes of oppression.'"1 Historically, Magna Carta was aimed a·t limiting the power of the king. Today, substantive due process is invoked to challenge arbitrary deprivations of life, liberty, and property by officials, such as police officers, jail guards, public-school educators, public employers, and members of zoning boards. However, the Supreme Court has emasculated its efficacy as a limitation on executive …
Discrimination, Plain And Simple, Henry L. Chambers, Jr.
Discrimination, Plain And Simple, Henry L. Chambers, Jr.
Law Faculty Publications
This short essay is a brief examination of the Court's relatively recent attempts to simplify Title VII and employment discrimination; it is not intended to be a comprehensive review of the Court's discrimination jurisprudence. Rather, it seeks to identify a few concerns with and implications of the Court's apparent desire to simplify Title VII jurisprudence. Part I briefly examines how the Court has simplified employment discrimination through Hicks and Oncale. Part II examines how the Court's simplifications have been used. Part III suggests concerns that should accompany the Court's simplification.